IO Interactive Targets 60 FPS for 007 First Light, Caps Series S at 30 FPS

2 articles · Updated · Wccftech · May 21

007 First Light will launch at 60 FPS on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X, while Xbox Series S is limited to a 30 FPS quality mode.
10 GB of RAM and lower GPU headroom on Series S forced that split, IO Interactive said, because the game keeps costly systems like real-time global illumination, volumetrics, dense crowds and dynamic streaming always active.
1440p internal upscaled to 4K is the target on PS5 Pro at 60 FPS; base PS5 and Series X share similar visual profiles, with performance modes dropping to 1080p internal rendering.
Four parallel async compute pipelines on PlayStation and a frame-graph renderer help Glacier juggle lighting, shadows and transparency more efficiently, while CPU work is spread across eight worker threads.
May 27 is the release date for PC and current-gen consoles, with path tracing delayed to a post-launch summer update and IO leaving open the possibility of a later Series S performance patch.

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